Tea or coffee pot



(No Model.)

H. B. BEACH & S. W. BABBITT.

TBA 0R COFFEE PDT.

No. 365,227. Patented June 21,1887.

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UNITE STATES ATENT Fries.

HENRY B. BEACH AND S. \Vhl. BABBITT, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTTCUT.

TEA OR COFFEE POT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,227, dated June 211887.

Se] ial No. 230,802. (No model.)

metal cylindrical surface. The metal body To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY B. BEACH and thus formed is coated upon theinside and out- S. \VM. BABBITT, of Mcridcn, in the county of side inthe usual manner for coating or enam- New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have incling metal ware. The beaded upper edge of 5 venteda new Improvement in Tea or Coffee the pot permits a complete andperfect enam- Pots; and wedo hereby declare the following, cling of thatedge, so that the metal will not when taken in connection withaccompanying be exposed or liable to contact with the fluid drawings andthe letters of reference marked in the pot. thereon, to be a full,clear, and exact dcserip- The top B is made to conform to the shape 10tion of the same, and which said drawings conof the top of the pot, andthe top is constructed stitute part of this spccificatiomand represent,with an outwardly-projecting annular flange in to extend outside thepot, the diameter of the Figure 1, a side view of the pot complete;flange when applied being so much greater Fig. 2, a vertical centralsection. than the diameter of the exterior of the top of I5Thisinvention is an improvement in the 0011- the pet that it may passfreely down over the struction of that classof tea and coffee pots inhead, and so that the top will come to a rest which the body of the potis made from metal thereon, as seen in Fig. 2. coated with a vitreousmaterial, such as GOlll- \Vithin the flange, and direct] y below themonly called enamel. bead a, a suitable packing, I), is introduced. 20In this class of pots a neck is attached with This may be a band of feltnarrower than the a cover to close the top, and in the more gendepth ofthe flange, or of any other suitable eral construction this neck issecured by solmaterial. After the packing has been intro dering to thepot, the enamel on the body ofthe duced the flange is spun or struckdown from pot being first ground off so as to expose the the outside, soas to embrace the bead a, as at 7 2 metal. in other cases connectionsare made (I, and close upon the packing b, and then bewith a metal bandon thepot below, so that low the "packing the flange is worked close thetop and band are bound together by metaldown uponthe surface of the pot,as at 0, so he connections. Again, the spout usually that the head isincloscd between the top B opens into the pot through the body, the andthe struck-in portion of the flange, and so 0 body being perforated as astrainer into the as to securely hold the top and pot together. spout.It is difficult to so enamel the pot The packing is closely compressedbetween the around the perforations that the edges will be upper portionof the flange, the lower portion so fully protected as to prevent thefluid in the ot' the flange being worked close down upon pet fromworking between the enamel and the the pot below the packing, so thatthe packing 5 metalof thepot. The action of the fluid on the iscompletely incloscd and the work becomes metal produces oxidation andcausestheenamel of the most finished character. to flake or break fromit. Through the top above the upper edge of The object of our inventionis to construct the body ofthe pot,perforationsf are made in a pot sothat the top or neck may be secured the usual manner as astrainer forpouring, and -1; 40 thereto without the intervcntionof solder or uponthe top at this point the spout C is seconnection with other part of thepot, and also cured to the top and flange, as indicated in to make theentrance to the pouring-spout 011- Fig. 2. Upon the opposite side thehandle D tirely in the top above the body of the pot. is fixed. Thisconstruction brings the open- A represents the body of the pot, whichmay ing to the spout entirely above the body of the 5 be of anydesirable shape. In the illustration pot, and therefore avoids cuttingor perforatit is shown cylindrical. It is made from sheet ing the metalof the body of the pot, and it metal. Around its upper edge an outwardlyalso brings the strainer into nearly a horizontal 'projecting bead, a,is formed by turning the plane, which we find very desirable, in that itmetal over, or the introduction of a wire, or prevents the clogging ofthe strainer by the 50 any of the known methods of forming a bead tea orcoffee, as the case may be, adhering or outward annular projectionaround a sheetthereto, as it will when the perforations are on I thevertical side of the pot, their own gravity tending to clear them fromthe strainer when the pot stands upright. v

The upper end of the handle is secured to the top or its flange bysolder or otherwise; but to secure-the lower end without exposing themetal of the body of the pot we introduce into the body of the potbefore enameling a rivet, g, the head of which is upon the inside, andit extends radially outward. This is firmly se cured in the metal of thebody of the pot becovers the head and incloses it as a part of the body.Then the handle is secured to this rivet, say, as by soldering orotherwise. By this construction as a whole the metal of the body of thepot is so fully protected by the enamel that the metal is not liable toexposure by use, and because of the manner of closing the top upon theupper edge of the body of the pot there is no liability of leak betweenthe top and body, and we prod uec a pot of the most perfect character. p

By the term projecting bead, as applied to the upper edge of the body asa means for securing the top, we wish to be understood as includinganysuitable projection or under-cut.

We have described the invention as applied to tea or coffee pots; butit. will be understood that it is applicable to analogous articles oftable-service.

A, made from sheet metal, with an outward-' ly-projecting head aroundits upper edge, the said body coated with enamel, combined with a metaltop, B, constructed with a downwardly-projecting flange outside saidbead, and a packing introduced between said flange and said bead, andthe flange closed down upon the bead and packing onto the body of thepot,

- substantially as described. fore enameling, so that the enamelcompletely 2. A tea or coffee pot consisting of the bod y' A, having ametal top attached thereto, the said top provided with a cover andconstructed with a spont above the body of the pot and below the cover,the said top having perforations at the spout and opening into it abovethe body of the pot and below the cover, substantially as described.

3. In a tea or coffee pot in which the body is made from sheet metalenameled upon its outer and inner surface, a rivet, fixed in the body ofthe pot before enanieling, said rivet projecting outward'from the bodyof the pot as a means for securing the handle to thepot, substantiallyasdescribed.

HENRY B. BEACH.

S. \VM. BABBITT. \Vitnesses:

F. A. BERNARD, S. B. Bnilcn.

